[Closed] If you had £110 million

"Out on the street...."?

My heart bleeds for Armstrong..

#NOT!

Lend me a fiver.

Yes, he cheated, but a part of me thinks this witch hunt is getting into discriminatory territory.

Every athlete from every sport convicted of drug abuse has not had to pay back every bit of money earned while competing, or anything close, have they?

Trying to send a message maybe?

That cheats don't prosper?

Seems fair to me.

Anything less weakens that concept IMHO.

There hasn't been a legal basis for reclaiming the money from every athlete who ever cheated, however for Armstrong that legal recourse does seem to exist.

I have more sympathy for the people we don't know the names of because he and his ilk chose to cheat and they didn't, he has stolen something from them that can never be recovered, and lets hope it leads to many more similar (if somewhat smaller) retributions.

Plus he is a bullying cockwomble.

Trying to send a message maybe?

That cheats don't prosper?

Will Landis get that message? A potential £25000000 sounds pretty prosperous

Little sympathy for any cheat - regardless of creed, colour or nation..

"Out on the street...."?

Well, no. Prison, maybe...

Not all cheats prosper.

Those that didnt often face more than just sporting ridicule. Some cling on to flailing egos, social pariah and a media whore.

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comparisons to other riders who did or didn't cheat is whataboutery

Lance cheated; Lance took out insurance that would guarantee a payout; Lance was proven to be a cheat, the cheated want their money back. They deserve it based on the above

TBH - going back to the title of the thread, unless I was pretty certain of winning in court, I'd take my €110m and **** off somewhere warm and sunny with it. After carefully considering extradition issues anyway.

I was never a fan of him, or road riding, but whilst I understand he's a dick and made life hard for people who pointed out his cheating, he was far from alone.

There's a point when you have to accept standing on top of the pile makes you the obvious one to make an example of, so let them, just don't be around to lose.

No one involved in this whole situation lost money, they all gained and which ever party gets more is as big a cheat. Time to call it a day. Can you imagine if mayweather was found to be using peds now and told to pay back all the money he's earnt, it sounds obsurd. I for one would like to see the whole pro pelaton juiced to the gills achieving super human feats. Entertain me.

If he's been even half sensible then a chunk of his money will be in Europe away from US jurisdiction.

I wouldn't have a problem if Riis, Ulrich, Basso, Hincapie etc were being pursued with the same vigour.

I wouldn't have a problem if Riis, Ulrich, Basso, Hincapie etc were being pursued with the same vigour.

This.

I'm no fan of Armstrong, in no small way due to well documented fact he was a bullying twunt, as pointed out above, however this is now a witch hunt.

Struggle to see how US Postal lost out through association with Lance. Far from it given the publicity they recieved. And given the state of road cylcing back in the day, it seems extrodinary that they didn't go into the whole arrangement in full knowledge that everyone was juiced out their tits

also...They got 35 quid of my cash for a jersey. Do I get to sue them to get that cash back?

I want this to fail purely for the reason that I would rather Lance have the money than that revolting little ginger ferret landis. To think he'l get 25 mil out of this whole deal disgusts me.

I would rather Lance have the money than that revolting little ginger ferret landis. To think he'l get 25 mil out of this whole deal disgusts me.

And that's what bothers me as well. It's not as if Landis was an innocent bystander in the whole USPS saga. Remember, he was busted first and then spent 4 years and $1m of other peoples money via the "Floyd Fairness Fund" to try and clear his name. It was only when he was out of options did he confess and point the finger at Armstrong.

Maybe he wasn't as bad as Armstrong in the grand scheme of things, but it doesn't feel right that he should now profit from Armstrong's downfall.

Re. Landis where are the numbers coming from that he stands to receive a £25m payout, as whistleblower, should LA be found guilty?

Real evidence please, not interweb gossip..

Lincoln's law innit. In the last 30 years about $4 billion has been paid to whistleblowers like Landis. I have no idea if it really would apply in this case but it's getting mentioned a lot so no reason to see why it wouldn't either.

[i]it incentivizes whistleblowers with knowledge of government fraud to come forward, by providing a potential share — generally between 15 percent and 30 percent — of the eventual recovery.[/i]

Lance IS different though, because of the policy.

He also took it further than anyone else.

it incentivizes whistleblowers with knowledge of government fraud to come forward, by providing a potential share — generally between 15 percent and 30 percent — of the eventual recovery.

So, the figure is a guess then since the payout is an estimate of an unknown figure.

Understood.

The difference with Lance Armstrong is that he made so many enemies through the way he treated people, they actively pursued him. Otherwise he'd be sat now bathing in notes from his $135m and generally enjoying life.

It's hard to feel sorry for him. Though I do tend to agree that certain people claiming so much money seems every bit as wrong as anything Lance did.

Well done! 😆

And finally… Gave Lance Armstrong a “what would Lance do?” Sticker (which he accepted gracefully)… he was then mooned by my teammates“.

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